FROM "LOVING GEORGE!"
Ik the Post Office at Epsom a conversation was overheard between two raoing "gents." One of them had evidently deserted his .wife sonie.little'tirne previously ; she had found him out and written to him for money., In one hand he held tbe reply he had written her/ and in the other a £5 •' flash" note on the Bank of Elegance. 41 Here, Bill," said he to the other gont, as he finished the epistle, "how'Jl this go ?" s and he read aloud- v Dear Emma, I send you tbe laßt-fiver I got. Get it changed at the post office nearest the police station.—Loving George." l 11 Why, blymy " ejaoulated Bill, " she'll git seven years if she tries to smash that.' " That's just it, you fool!" responded the other, pityingly ; and Bill nearly split his Bideß with laughing.
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Taranaki Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 9762, 29 July 1893, Page 1 (Supplement)
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139FROM "LOVING GEORGE!" Taranaki Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 9762, 29 July 1893, Page 1 (Supplement)
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